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Walther Hermann Nernst was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for developing the Nernst equation in 1887.

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science · German physical chemist (1864–1941) · chemist · physicist · university teacher · also Walther Hermann Nernst, Walther Nernst, Nernst

Born 25 June 1864 · Died 18 November 1941 · Q57125

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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2011).
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It is often easy to write history, but it is always more difficult to learn anything from the history after it is written.
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2011· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2011Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2011).

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1941· 3 entries

Nov 18, 1941Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1941-11-18.

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“It is often easy to write history, but it is always more difficult to learn anything from the history after it is written.”

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1941Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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At Zibelle, Germany (now Niwica, Poland)

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1937· 1 entry

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Traveled to the University of Oxford to receive an honorary degree, also visiting his eldest daughter, her husband, and his three grandchildren

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1933· 1 entry

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Nernst learned that a colleague, with whom he had hoped to collaborate, had been dismissed from the department because he was a Jew

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1932· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1932Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1932).

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1930· 1 entry

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In association with the Bechstein and Siemens companies, replacing the sounding board with vacuum tube amplifiers

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1928· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1928Documented record84% confidence

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Won Franklin Medal (1928).

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1927· 1 entry

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The decrease in specific heat at low temperatures was extended to gases

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1924· 1 entry

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Became director of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Berlin

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1920· 3 entries

Dec 10, 1920Documented record85% confidence

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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — in recognition of his work in thermochemistry.

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Jun 15, 1920Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1920).

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And his family briefly fled abroad because he was one of the scientists on the Allied list of war criminals

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1918· 1 entry

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After studying photochemistry, he proposed the atomic chain reaction theory

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1914· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1914Documented record84% confidence

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Won Bunsen Medal (1914).

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1914Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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The Nernsts were entertaining co-workers and students they had brought to their country estate in a private railway car when they learned that war had been declared

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1913· 1 entry

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Traveled to Switzerland to persuade Einstein to accept it; a dream job: a named professorship at the top university in Germany, without teaching duties, leaving him free for research

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1911· 1 entry

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Nernst and Max Planck organized the first Solvay Conference in Brussels

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1909· 1 entry

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So people said: "Einstein must be a clever fellow if the great Nernst comes all the way from Berlin to Zürich to talk to him

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1906· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1906Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Silliman Memorial Lectures (1906).

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1905· 1 entry

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Proposed his "New Heat Theorem", later known as the Third law of thermodynamics

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1898· 1 entry

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Bought the first of the eighteen automobiles he owned during his lifetime and a country estate of more than five hundred hectares for hunting

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1895· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1895Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1895).

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1892· 1 entry

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With whom he had two sons and three daughters

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1889· 1 entry

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Finished his habilitation at Leipzig University

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1887· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1887Documented record84% confidence

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Studied at University of Würzburg, doctorate (1886–1887).

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1886· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1886Documented record84% confidence

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Studied at University of Graz (1886).

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1885· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1885Documented record84% confidence

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Studied at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (1885).

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1883· 2 entries

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Then after an interlude in Berlin, he returned to Zürich

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Jan 1, 1883Documented record84% confidence

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Studied at University of Zurich (1883).

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1864· 1 entry

Jun 25, 1864Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1864-06-25.

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